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Province of British Columbia
2nd Session, 36th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 24, 1997 to March 26, 1998
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Hansard Sittings by Page Number
Habitat conservation fund (Habitat Conservation Trust fund)
- Funding for kokanee enhancement program (Hawkins) 5610 (McGregor) 5610
- Purpose and operation of fund (Clark, C.) 5660-2 (McGregor) 5660-2
- Revenue from angling fees to trust fund (Clark, C.) 5662, 5664-5 (McGregor) 5662, 5664-5
- Use of funds (Clark, C.) 5541-2 (McGregor) 5542
Habitat conservation trust fund
- Use of funds (Clark, C.) 5950
Haggard, Dave
- Cited and quoted on Forest Renewal B.C. funding and unionization issue (Nebbeling) 3280, 5080, 5084 (Wilson, J.) 3280
- Quoted on jobs and timber accord and unionization (Nebbeling) 4923
Hague convention on intercountry adoption
- See International adoptions under Adoption
Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte school district
Hairdressers Act
Halpern, Mark
- Article on societal breakdown quoted (Dalton) 5738
Halsey-Brandt, Greg
- Letter quoted on municipal grants, reduction (Reid) 2593-4 (Symons) 2601
Hammell, Hon. Sue (Surrey-Green Timbers)
Minister of Women's Equality
- An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (federal), provisions on disclosure of counselling records 2783, 4454
- Affiliation of Multicultural Societies (and Service Agencies) of B.C., internet program grant allocation 4457
- AIDS strategy for B.C., role of Women's Equality ministry 4461
- Atira Transition House, residential program for women 2662-4
- Automobile insurance, impact of no-fault insurance on women 2802-3
- B.C. Benefits program
- B.C. Gaming Commission, role in public consultation on gambling expansion 2783
- B.C. Housing Management Commission, policy on subsidized-housing priority for women leaving abusive relationships 2659
- B.C.-Yukon Society of Transition Houses, mandate and funding 4447-8
- Budget debate 2336, 2349-50
- Canada Pension Plan, benefit levels 2666-7
- Children and Families ministry
- contract reform project, contracts with outside service providers 4447
- program and service transfers from Women's Equality ministry 2779
- Children, custody and access issues 4459
- Children Who Witness Abuse program, operations and ministerial responsibility 2669, 2779, 4449
- Community Social Services Employers Association of B.C.
- role as bargaining agent for low-wage workers 2668
- role in contract reform project 2660-1
- Crime, stalking and criminal harassment 2655, 2657, 2671-2, 2782-3, 2786-7, 2806, 4455
- Criminal Code of Canada, amendments 2782
- Discrimination and racism, elimination, work of community groups 2589
- Eating disorders, ministerial responsibility 4461
- Education
- post-secondary education, student spaces 2350
- protection of B.C. system 2350
- Employment equity, measures to include women in major construction projects 2657
- Equality Day, celebration 2589
- Family maintenance enforcement program, maintenance payment enforcement mechanisms 2786
- Firearms, weapons amnesty 2806
- Foster parents, eligibility for legal aid 2779-80
- Gakhal family
- anniversary of murder 2292
- murder case 4451
- Gambling
- addiction treatment programs 2804, 3381
- expansion in B.C.
- consultation with interest groups 2783
- Liberal Party position 2805
- ministerial responsibility 2664-5, 2783
- NDP government position 2803, 2805
- Liberal Party position 2752
- link with family violence 2712
- problem gambling, link with family violence 2799-800
- treatment for problem gamblers 2751-3
- Health care, protection of B.C. system 2350
- Housing
- Insurance Corporation of B.C., claims, awards to women 2787-9, 2803, 2805-6
- Internet, training for women 2657, 4457
- Ishtar Transition House, role as model for transition houses across North America 2782
- Jiany family, gambling addiction case 3381
- Justice system, impacts of courthouse closings on women 2785
- Kwantlen College, students turned away before 1991 election of NDP 2349
- Lawyers and legal services, legal aid 2779-80
- Legal Education and Action Fund, work of group 2589
- Legislature, estimates debate, use of sign-language interpreters during estimates debate 2657
- Multiculturalism
- interministry committee 4457
- use of multifaith calendar 4459
- NDP government, priorities 2350
- Peggy's Place, women's residential treatment program 2662-3, 2666
- Performance as Women's Equality minister (Boone) 2811 (Bowbrick) 2823 (Chong) 2824 (Clark, C.) 2811-2 (Coleman) 2820 (Farrell-Collins) 2805-10 (Gillespie) 2816-7 (Hammell) 2805-6 (Hawkins) 2814-6 (Kwan) 2814 (Miller) 2815, 2818-20 (Nebbeling) 2822-3 (Priddy) 2820-2 (Ramsey) 2807-8 (Sihota) 2812-3 (Smallwood) 2810-1 (Stephens) 2805, 2817-8 (Whittred) 2813-4 (Wilson, G.) 2817
- Position on gambling expansion in B.C. (Clark, C.) 2803-4 (Hammell) 2803-4
- Prostitutes Empowerment, Education and Recovery Society of Victoria, services project 4460
- Prostitution, government action 4460-1
- Provincial Child Care Advisory Council, ministerial responsibility 2779
- Retirement, impact of wage gap and family responsibilities on retirement income for women 2666-7
- A Safer Future for B.C. Women program 2786-7, 4460
- Saltspring Island Transition House, funding 2804-5, 4445-6
- Schools, capital funding projects, school construction in Surrey 2349
- Seniors, health care needs, adult children caring for aging parents 2666-7
- Sexual assault
- programs and services 2655, 2661, 2669-70
- right to privacy, disclosure of counselling records during criminal trials 2782, 4484
- Social Credit government, restraint policies during 1975-91 period 2349
- Social welfare system
- hardship benefits for people ineligible for income assistance 4458
- income assistance, benefits and operations 4458-9
- Stopping the Violence program 2670, 2779
- counselling-practice guidelines 2661-2
- program 2659
- Substance abuse/addiction
- prescription drugs 4461
- treatment programs for women leaving violent relationships 2662-4, 2666
- Surrey, growth during 1970s and 1980s 2349
- Surrey Memorial Hospital, service levels 2350
- Surrey-Cloverdale constituency, school construction 2349
- Surrey-Green Timbers constituency, new and renovated schools 2349
- Surrey-White Rock constituency, school construction 2349
- Trades Discovery for Women program, non-traditional trades program for women 2657
- Velisek, Sharon, murder case, report on RCMP investigative procedures 4451
- Vernon and District Women's Centre, report on family violence study 4451
- Violence
- family violence
- family violence among Indians, programs and service delivery 2671
- prevention and victim services 2712
- training for police and justice personnel 4452-3
- violence against women
- counselling services, funding and service delivery 2669-71
- economic and social consequences 2655-6, 2785
- legislation, future legislation and current models 4449-52
- numbers of charges and convictions 4454
- prevention 2712, 2752
- prevention programs and services in languages other than English 2672
- risk assessment procedures 4454
- treatment programs for assaultive men 2670-2
- violence against women in relationships
- Wages
- Women
- career and family responsibilities, leave of absence from work to care for family members 2666-7
- economic equity, barriers to equality 2655, 2781, 2785
- employment
- health issues, public education program 2655-6
- leaves of absence from work to care for family members 2666-7
- ombudsman for women's issues 4453
- role of women in society 2781-2
- services for women 2712-3, 2752
- women's centres, programs and program funding 2668
- Women Against Violence Against Women, funding from gambling revenues 2751
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2654-72, 2779-89, 2802-6, 4445-62
- 1995-96 annual report tabled 5735
- budget reductions 2656
- contracts with outside service providers, contract reform project 2659-62, 4446-7
- management information system (MIS), data collection and performance measurement of programs and services 2659, 2661, 4448
- mandate and responsibilities of ministry 2655-6, 2658, 2664, 2781-2, 2784-5, 2800, 2802
- multiculturalism plan 2672, 4455-7
- policy and evaluation branch, mandate and role 2802
- regional offices 2655
- role in services transition to Children and Families ministry 4449
- work on women's issues since establishment of free-standing ministry 2655-6, 2665
- work with other ministries 2657-8, 2661, 2669-71, 2781-2, 2784, 4453-4
- Wood, Josiah, report on police procedures in domestic violence cases 4451
Handel, George Frideric
- Messiah oratorio, creation and history (Pullinger) 2319 (Reitsma) 2318-20
Handsworth Secondary School, North Vancouver, B.C.
HandyDART
- Role in dial-a-ride service (MacPhail) 5012 (Symons) 5012
- Use of service (MacPhail) 5198 (Symons) 5198
Hansen, Colin (Vancouver-Quilchena)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 3416
- Alberta
- forest industry investment 3629
- investment in province 6015-6
- Attorney General ministry
- Bent Nail employment project 6495
- Biotechnology industry in B.C. 2770-1
- Bladerunners program 6495-6
- B.C.
- history, preservation of public and private records 4269-71
- standard of living 2368
- B.C. Hydro power sales, surplus energy sales to other public utilities 6451-2
- "B.C. Jobs Strategy: Themes and Next Steps"
- B.C. Lottery Corporation
- advertising policies 4378-9, 4702-3
- hosting costs for 1996 lottery convention 4708
- participation in international lottery activities 4709, 4727-8
- president's contract 4709
- role of B.C. Lottotech 4707-8
- B.C. Place, renovation proposals 4060-1, 4079
- B.C. Transit planning, funding and governance negotiations with Greater Vancouver regional district 5126
- B.C. 21 program, committee makeup and decision-making process 4195-6
- Budget debate 2365-9
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2713-6, 2928
- Build B.C., operations 4195-6
- Business
- competitiveness of B.C. companies 2365-9
- job creation role of private sector 4049
- small business
- impact of employment standard regulations 3093-4
- job creation role 2366
- Canada-B.C. Infrastructure Works program 4204-5
- Cancer, breast cancer
- assessment and diagnostic partnership program 3789
- biopsy surgery wait-lists 3787-9
- CanWest Gas Supply Inc., marketing role of company 4165
- Clark, Peter, "Gaming Review: Expansion Options and Implications"
- statements on return of social problems to United States 4378
- Communities, role in preservation of historical documents 4270-1
- Construction industry review panel, reports 5733
- Corporation capital tax, impact on businesses 2714
- Crown corporations, financial involvement in Four Corners Community Savings 6502
- Destinations program
- role of Elizabeth Cull 2506-7
- training funds, corporate recipients 2469
- Drugs, federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2770-1
- Earthquakes, damage potential 3611
- Economy
- B.C. economy
- changing nature 2366-8
- growth 4051
- growth, comparison with elsewhere 6015-6
- micromanagement 4046-7
- performance under NDP administration 4194
- globalization 3618-9
- per capita gross domestic product in B.C. 4472-3
- Electric power, market deregulation 4192, 4194
- Employment
- labour force participation rates 4048-52
- regional job strategies 4205
- Employment and Investment ministry
- estimates debate 4041-2, 4044-61, 4079, 4096-100, 4165, 4187-97, 4203-9, 4269-71, 4376-82, 4699, 4703, 4705, 4707-9, 4727-8, 5056, 6495-6, 6501-4
- annual reports, timeliness 4196-7
- archives and records service, current and future operations 4269-71
- business plans for ministry divisions 4041, 4187
- community development branch, projects and funding 6495-6
- corporate services for community development programs, cost recoveries 4208
- directive re staff contact with media 4100
- estimates, scheduling of debate 4549-50
- funding for Four Corners Community Savings 6501-2
- funding of jobs strategy consultations 4473
- minister's knowledge of jobs strategy document 4471
- responsibility for skills training projects 6495-6
- role in development of B.C. jobs strategy 4044-8, 4187, 4191-2, 4473, 6014-5
- Employment and unemployment
- employment levels 2325, 4472
- employment standards, orientation initiatives 3092-4
- job creation
- job creation 2365-8
- job creation during NDP administration 2393-4
- number of new jobs in B.C. 6015
- policies 4192, 4194
- role of interministerial working group 4187-8
- targets 4188-90
- targets, statistical base for measurement purposes 4045-6, 4048
- jobs strategy for B.C.
- Employment Standards Act
- compliance vs. enforcement 3092-4
- exemptions and variances 3094-5
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5722
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates debate 4440, 4470-3
- Forest industry
- employment levels, comparison with Alberta 3629
- government intervention 2393
- jobs 4589-90
- tree-planting jobs for students 3442
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 4999-5002
- Fort Nelson, chopstick plant closing 2367
- Four Corners Community Savings, operations 6501-4
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling 4376-7, 4379
- casinos 4377, 4379
- expansion in B.C.
- interministerial activities 4379, 4381
- job creation projections 4377
- information, centralized resource database 4381
- jurisdictional authority of province 4381-2
- legalization, impact on illegal operations 4377
- lotteries, international and interjurisdictional lotteries 4709, 4727-8
- revenues, retaining and attracting of gambling dollars 4378
- video lottery terminals, comparison with slot machines 4377-8
- Government
- downloading of costs to other agencies 2714-5
- policies, accountability 4470-1
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2715-6
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 4552-3
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6244-7, 6251-2
- Health care
- governance structure
- amalgamations of old boards and councils, asset and liability issues 6252
- centralization of power 6245-6
- health care workers
- certification period 6247
- collective bargaining process 6251-2
- private facilities, mandatory amalgamation with public boards or councils 6244-5
- regional health boards and community health councils, appointment process 6243
- regionalization, expropriation issue 6244-5
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3787-9, 5126-7
- Helms-Burton act (United States), purpose 4098-9
- Immigration
- B.C. investment fund for immigrant investors 4055-7
- business immigration program 4054-5, 4057
- immigrants to Canada, number 2908
- interministry working group 2908
- Indians
- employment, federal-provincial labour market development agreement 3416
- skills training, federal funding for off-reserve Indians 3416
- Industrial incentive fund 2928, 4099-100
- Infrastructure, investment for future growth 2368
- Infrastructure Works program, consultation with municipalities 2715
- Innovative Waste Technologies Inc., move of company to Alberta 2409-10
- Investment
- Investment Canada, projects during 1991-95 period 4053
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2393-4, 2408-10, 2414
- Job protection commissioner
- elimination of position, cabinet's powers 2414
- extension of mandate 2408-10
- temporary nature of position 2394
- Jobs and timber accord, government target, basis used 4999-5001
- Kerley, Douglas, work as job protection commissioner 2367, 2393
- Labour, advocacy for workers 3093
- Labour ministry
- estimates debate 3092-5, 6000-1
- advocacy role re workers' rights 3093
- annual reports, timeliness 3095
- employment standards branch, mandate and role 3092-5
- role 6000-1
- Labour relations, balance between worker and management rights 6000-1
- Labour Relations Code
- Labour Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Legislation, omnibus bills, NDP government use 2713
- Legislature
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 4549-53
- estimates process 4096, 4550-1
- role of opposition 4205-6
- Liberal Party
- policies, comparison with NDP 4190
- position on current policies re assistance for resource communities 4208-9
- Lions Gate Bridge, renewal project proposal 4059
- Manufacturing industry, technological upgrading at Fraser Valley company 2366
- MLAs, workload 4551-2
- Multilateral agreement on investment
- B.C. request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52), debate 3618-20
- consultations 3618-20, 4096-7
- impact on B.C. interests 4097-8
- Third World participation 3619
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3652-4
- Municipalities
- authority to approve or restrict gambling within own boundaries 4381-2
- grants from provincial government, NDP MLAs' comments during 1994 debate 2716
- Musqueam Indian band, lands occupied by leaseholders, property tax issue 4440
- NDP government
- policies 2714
- press releases, wording 2771
- role in 1997 federal election campaign 4552
- Oil and gas industry
- natural gas sales outside B.C. 4165
- natural gas systems, public safety issue 3611
- Power for Jobs Development Act
- Power for Jobs program
- administrator's role and mandate 6015
- program objectives and monitoring of progress 6014-6, 6448-9
- reduced power rates, setting of rate 6451-2
- Premier's Office, estimates debate 6520-2
- Real property tax, deferment program for seniors 4440
- Recreational injuries, liability of commercial operators 2944-5
- Repap B.C. restructuring plan, clawback provision 4206-8
- Resources and resource industries
- natural resource community fund 4057-8
- resource-based communities in northwest B.C., economic concerns 4208-9
- Rifkin, Jeremy, comments on jobs for future workers 2366
- Simonis, Guy, availability to answer questions during estimates debate 4699
- Ski industry, injury waivers 2944-5
- Skills training, upgrading for technological change 2365-6, 2368
- Student Summer Works program 6520-1
- Students, summer jobs 4203-4, 6520-1
- Taxi operators, exclusion from employment standards legislation 3094-5
- Third World countries, international investment 3619
- Trade unions
- collective bargaining structures for unionized workers, sectoral bargaining 4789
- organizing of workers in non-industrial sectors 5639
- Transit, bus services, location of stops 5126-7
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5433-4
- Trucking industry, interprovincial truckers, exclusion from employment standards legislation 3094-5
- University Endowment Lands
- governance study and issues 3653-4
- Municipal Affairs deputy minister's role 3652
- Vancouver
- municipal grant reduction 2715
- South West Marine Drive, condition of road 5433-4
- trade and convention centre, construction project 4059-61, 4079
- Woodward's redevelopment project 6496
- Waste management, contaminated-site remediation plans 5722
- Women, employment strategy 4206
- World Cup Soccer lottery, B.C. participation 4709, 4727
- World Meet, conference of lottery organizations 4708
- Youth
Hansen, Rick
Hanson, Colin
- Commended for assistance to Motor Carrier Commission (Barisoff) 5440
Harcourt, Michael
- 1994 statements on gambling quoted (Krueger) 4272
- Quoted while Premier on gambling expansion (Krueger) 2263
- Work as university student on inner-city service project (Anderson) 4613
Hardie, Ken
- Statement on role of courts in ruling on motor vehicle accident claims (Petter) 4637-8 (Plant) 4637-8
- Statements cited on Insurance Corporation of B.C. costs (Neufeld) 4648-9 (Petter) 4648
Hardy, Bruce
- Letter quoted on Murphy foster child case (Campbell) 3501-2 (Plant) 3503
Harling Point
- Chinese cemetery, beautification funding for national historic site (Chong) 4720-2 (Petter) 4721-2
Harrison, Dave
- Work with B.C. Hydro (Farrell-Collins) 4984 (Miller) 4984
Harrison Hot Springs, B.C.
- Washrooms on public beaches (Streifel) 2359
Harron, Noel
- Article in Adminfo cited re school security (Sanders) 6074-5
Hart, Bob
- Dispute with Forests ministry, case (Wilson, J.) 5422-3 (Zirnhelt) 5424
Hart, Michael
- Quoted on future of B.C. economy (Nettleton) 4424
Hartley, William James (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)
- Accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning 3610
- Alouette River fish hatchery, interpretive centre construction project 2342
- Appointment as Deputy Chair, Committee of the Whole (MacPhail) 2089
- B.C. Games, 1998 Summer Games in Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows 2342-3
- Budget debate 2341-3
- Earthquakes, damage potential 3610-1
- Employment, job creation 2343
- Fish habitat, urban salmon habitat program 2342
- Food banks, activities 2460-1
- Food Donor Encouragement Act, purpose of legislation 2460
- Friends in Need Food Bank, activities 2460-1
- Gas Protection Systems Inc., partnership agreement with B.C. 3611-2
- Maple Ridge courthouse, future 2343
- Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows area, growth and economy 2341-3
- Oil and gas industry, natural gas systems, public safety issue 3610-2
- Recycling, work of Maple Ridge volunteers 2461
- Ridge Meadows Hospital, accreditation 2342
- School district 42 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows), cost savings 2342-3
- Science and technology, knowledge-based industry in B.C. 2343
- Volunteerism, social benefits 2460-1
- Youth, jobs for young people 2343
Hastings Elementary School, Vancouver, B.C.
- Renovation (MacPhail) 2118
Hastings Institute, Vancouver, B.C.
- Diversity training (Anderson) 5501 (Zirnhelt) 5501
Hastings Park
Hate crimes
- See Discrimination and racism
Hawkins, Sindi (Okanagan West)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 3453-4, 3488-9
- AIDS, provincial strategy 3645-6, 3691
- Alton, Kayla, investigation of death by children's commissioner 2681
- Ambulance service
- air ambulance services 3876-7
- fee for emergency use 2178
- paramedic services 3868-70, 3895
- response times and hospital emergency services 3858
- service fees 2153
- vehicle reliability 3877
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2681
- Better Teamwork, Better Care model for health care services delivery 3342-4
- Biotechnology industry, impact of NDP government initiatives 2761
- B.C. Ambulance Service
- call volumes and staffing levels 3875
- dispatch system 3871
- emergency calls vs. transfer services 3875-6
- equipment needs 3877
- first-responder protocols 3876
- patient safety 3877-8
- response times and hospital waiting times 3871-4
- staffing issues 3868-71
- B.C. Cancer Agency
- B.C. Centre for Disease Control, status under regionalized health care system 3902
- B.C. Medical Association
- agreement on proration of physician overbillings 3707-8
- physicians' agreement with government, cost 2217
- B.C. Neurotrauma Fund Contribution Act, debate 3215
- B.C., northern B.C., physician supply and recruitment 3693-4
- B.C. Renal Council, role 3426-8
- Budget
- debate 2234-7, 2388
- "3-D budget" for 1997-98 fiscal year 2234-6
- 1997-98 budget, projected deficit 2235
- deficit budgets, number 2177-8
- use of interim supply 4850
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2861-3
- Canada, Sikh community in Canada, 100th anniversary 5616
- Cancer
- clinics, expanded hours, impact on capital equipment 3779-81
- Kelowna clinic, operations 3425, 3778-9
- patients travelling to Bellingham for treatment 3779
- Victoria clinic expansion project 3425
- wait-lists for services 3786
- Capital health region board, operations 3421-2
- Chemainus, land donation for health care facility, ownership 5865-6
- Children
- apprehensions of children at risk 6532-4
- child protection, complaints mechanism re delivery of child welfare services 6532
- Children and Families ministry
- estimates debate 6532-4
- responsibilities shared with Health ministry 3520-1
- Children's Commission, commissioner's investigation of child's death in Kelowna 2681
- Civil service, public sector employment contracts, termination provisions for exempt employees 5859-60
- Columbia View Lodge, funding for special care unit 3520, 3543
- Comments on changes to health care system (MacPhail) 3424
- Comox Valley Nursing Centre, funding 3817-8
- Cottonwoods Hospital, funding needs 3775-7
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, link to blood transfusions 3692
- Criminal Code, decriminalization of illegal drug use 3645
- Cull, Elizabeth, contract with capital health region board 3284, 3422-5, 5865
- Davis, Victor, accident victim, organs used for transplant 3054-5
- Debt, public debt during NDP administration 2235-6
- Drugs
- cost of drugs 2757
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2757-61
- generic substitutions for proprietary medications 3898-902
- imitation drugs 2760-1
- policy on pharmaceuticals, NDP government's methods 2757-8
- reference-based pricing
- research 2761
- Duncan, mental health services 3520
- Eating disorders, services for children 3642-3
- Education, joint-facilities project between Kelowna Secondary School and Okanagan University College 6226-7
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 6225-7
- Emergencies
- provincewide 911 service 3895
- review of medical emergency services 3871-4
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4699-700, 4901
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5605-6, 5610, 5667-8, 5832-3
- Forest industry, government regulation 2177
- Forest Practices Code, impact on industry 6160-1
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- budget to include Forests ministry expenditures 2235
- funds, redirecting to non-forestry uses 2178
- Forests ministry, silviculture expenditures 2235
- Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6160-1
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2863
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling, costs and consequences 2815-6, 6111
- expansion in B.C.
- impact on families 2752
- Government
- accounting, off-budget recording of expenditures 2235-6
- financial management plan, Business Council of B.C.'s position 2236
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2861-2
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2177-8
- use of funds recovered in legal actions against tobacco companies 6111-2, 6312
- Government agents
- G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital
- Habitat conservation fund, funding for kokanee enhancement program 5610
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2814-6
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997
- Health care
- accountability framework, performance measures 3288-9, 3342-5
- capital projects funding review, projects released from freeze 3863-4
- chelation therapy 3704-5
- community care facilities 6008
- community health services societies, role 3285, 3321-4
- core programs, responsibility 3294-5
- costs, tobacco-related illness and disease 6111-2, 6310, 6315-6
- CT scanner for northern Vancouver Island 3816-7
- facilities accreditation process 3344-5
- funding
- acute care funding formula 3777-8, 3817
- transitional special account 3292
- governance structure
- amalgamations of old boards and councils, asset and liability issues 5865-6
- roles and relationships 3287-8, 3294, 3321-4
- health care societies, role in regionalized system 3287
- health care workers
- employment relationships under regionalization 3323-4
- front-line workers 3785
- labour relations 5866
- home ventilation service 3707
- hospital societies, amalgamation 2223
- labour accord 3770, 3773-4
- New Directions program, review and modification of health care model 3423-4
- out-of-country medical treatment 3702-3
- patient care 3955
- provincial health goals 3290
- regional health boards and community health councils
- regionalization
- administrative cost savings 3292, 3422-3
- consultation 3424-5
- funding and transfer agreements with regional authorities, audit provisions 3289-90
- impact on current service delivery system 3873
- implementation planning 3423
- objectives 3341-2
- termination pay-outs for redundant employees 5859
- transition resource teams 3420-1
- services
- culturally sensitive services 2458-60
- homeless people 3518
- innovative services 3344
- user as consumer 3693
- system
- effectiveness 3283-5
- future 3345
- future needs 3345
- government commitment to system 2392
- reform and number of administration personnel 3290-1, 3322
- user fees 3705-7
- wait-lists and waiting times
- Health ministry
- estimates debate 3283-95, 3321-4, 3341-5, 3419-29, 3518-21, 3543, 3642-3, 3645-6, 3667-8, 3690-4, 3702-8, 3773-81, 3785-8, 3815-20, 3863-4, 3867-78, 3895, 3898-902
- estimates debate, staff time required to answer questions 3778
- minister's certificate as evidence of tobacco-related health care costs 6310
- number of ministers in past six years 3283
- role in regional health board operations 3421-2
- role in regionalized health care system 3322-3, 3345
- staff, transfer to regionalized health services authorities 3321
- Healthy Communities program, role in regionalized health care system 3667-8
- Hepatitis C, database of blood transfusion recipients 3691-2
- Highway 1, Bradner Road sani-dump station, limited hours of operation, impact 5431-2
- Highway 97
- Glenrosa intersection project 5284
- land acquisition from Westbank Indian band for road system improvements 5325
- Highways and roads, funding and maintenance 5434-5
- Hospitals
- acute-care beds, availability 3872-3
- boards, amalgamation with community councils and regional boards 3287, 3295
- funding 3774-9, 3815-7
- severance for displaced executive personnel 3290
- tour of B.C. hospitals, member's personal experiences 3286-7 (Boone) 3782
- Housing for homeless and at-risk people 3518
- Immigration, history of South Asian immigration to Canada 5616
- Kamloops water supply, testing responsibility 3690-1
- Keane, Tom, work with B.C. Cancer Agency 3779
- Kelowna
- municipal grant reduction 2862
- rural roads in area, maintenance 5434
- Kelowna General Hospital
- Kelowna Secondary School
- building renovation and reconstruction 6225-7
- need for building improvements 4849
- Kettle Valley area park 5832-3
- Key, Adel, cardiac surgery wait-list case 2362
- Kidney disease
- availability of renal dialysis services 3425-7
- transplant program 3427-8
- Legislature
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 4557-9
- legislative calendar 4848-50
- private members' bills, recognition 4849-50
- sittings, days not sat during 1997 session 4849
- Man in Motion neurotrauma fund, funds used to benefit B.C. 3215
- Medical Services Commission, monitoring of physician billings 3707-8
- Medical Services Plan
- benefits, payment limits on supplementary benefits 3705-7, 3826-7
- coverage
- alternative medical procedures 3704-5
- smoking-cessation treatment programs 6111
- deinsuring of services 3692-3
- enrolment 6316-9
- fee-for-service payments to physicians 2217, 3692
- out-of-country services 3702-3
- premiums, collection system 3703
- reserve account 3694
- residency requirement 6320
- restrictions on amounts billed by physicians 3693, 3707-8
- Medicare Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 6316-20
- withdrawal from debate on grounds of possible conflict of interest 6195
- MLAs, workload 4557-9
- Mental health services
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 5684
- Misri, Shalla, work on post-partum depression 3642
- Mission Creek, flooding 5605-6
- Motor vehicle branch, Kelowna office, service 4316, 5436
- MSA Hospital, construction project 3863
- Multiculturalism, culturally diverse health services and information, availability 2458-60
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3655-6
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, funding 3774-5
- NDP government
- North Shore regional health board, chief executive officer's severance arrangements 2654
- Okanagan Lake
- bridge project, study and costs 5283-4
- mysis shrimp and impact on kokanee salmon 5610
- Okanagan West constituency, issues and concerns 2177-8
- Peace River Haven, services 3520
- Penner, Barry, comments on changes to health care system 3423
- Pharmacare program
- generic-drug substitution 2758
- PharmaNet computer system
- claims, value of prescription payments 3898
- prescription information, access by hospitals and physicians' offices 5693, 5853-5
- protection, NDP government actions 2757
- special authority prescription approvals 3901
- therapeutics initiative 2758, 3899-900
- Pharmacists, compensation for increased workload 3901-2
- Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5693, 5853-5
- Physicians
- billing numbers for out-of-country physicians 3694
- respite services, northern and rural locum program 3694
- service regionalization 3692
- supply and recruitment, community designation policies 3519
- Prince George Regional Hospital, services for substance addictions 3519-20
- Privacy, confidentiality of personal medical information 5693, 5853-5
- Provincial emergency program, flood control work and jurisdictional issues 5606
- Public Sector Employers Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5859-60
- Quoted on opposition input into health care decisions (Sanders) 3358
- Regional hospital districts
- replacement of boards 5684
- Richmond, Etta, dismissal and severance arrangements 3423
- Roberts Lake, flooding 5667-8
- Saltspring Island Transition House, funding 2815
- Schamborzki, Inge, position with North Shore regional health board 2392, 2654
- School district 23 (Central Okanagan), capital funding projects 6225-7
- Science and technology, Canadian space program, current and future activities 6385-6
- Select Standing Committee on Health and Social Services, role 3286
- Seniors services provided by government, reductions 2177
- Skeleem Village treatment centre
- conditions, Health ministry handling of issue 6008-9, 6108
- government funding 6108
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 4301, 4314-7
- Substance abuse/addiction
- intravenous drug use and AIDS 3645-6
- treatment centres and programs 3519-20
- Summerland, ambulance service for area 3870
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2177-8, 2217
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 4848-50
- Tobacco
- industry liability for smoking-related health care costs, recovery of costs 6111-2, 6312, 6315-6
- tobacco reduction strategy 3691
- use, revenues to government 6111
- Tobacco Damages Recovery Act
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, government support for bill 6112
- Tourism B.C.
- autonomy and board member selection 3175
- funding security 3175
- Tourism British Columbia Act, debate 3175-6
- Transplantation, donor organs, number available 3053-5
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5283-4, 5325-6, 5431-2, 5434-6
- Vancouver Island Cancer Centre, operations 3780, 3785-7
- Vancouver-Richmond regional health board, program responsibilities 3294-5, 3902
- Water
- water supply, medical health officer's role in protection of public water supply 3690-1
- waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium, testing for presence in water supply 3690-1
- Werry, Brandon, anorexia case 3642
- West Coast General Hospital, condition of building 3863-4, 4849, 6562
- Westbank Indian band, land issues 3453-4
- Westbank irrigation district concerns, local decision 3655-6
- Westside Road, condition and plans 5284, 5325-6
- Westview, flooding in village, health concerns 3488-9
- Wilson Landing, Baird Road, use by fire trucks 5326
- Women, post-partum depression 3642
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2814-6
- mandate and responsibilities 2816
- minister, role as champion for women's issues 2815-6
- policy and development branch, mandate and role 2815
- Yarrow, Scott, home ventilation case 3507
Hay, Karie
- Letter quoted on Workers Compensation Board poll (Reid) 3200-1
Haycock, Ken
- Letter to Education minister quoted on interdistrict integration of payroll and human resource systems (Dalton) 6141
Hayward, Steve
- Work on establishing unrelated bone marrow donor registry (Plant) 4029-30 (Sihota) 4030
Hazardous products
- Management, industrial stewardship model (McGregor) 5476
- Spills, cost recovery from polluters (Clark, C.) 3446-7 (McGregor) 3445, 3735
Healey, Ray
- Quoted re automobile insurance claims (Plant) 2480
- Statements on role of courts in ruling on motor vehicle accident claims (Petter) 4637-8 (Plant) 4637-8
Health Authorities Act
- Amendments (Dosanjh) 5675
Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 28) (Minister of Health) 1R, 3501; 2R, 5860-70; C, 5895-9, 6243-52; 3R, 6310; RA, 6414
- Amdts: sec. 7 (MacPhail) 6244, approved 6244; sec. 15 (MacPhail) 6247, approved 6248
- Division: 2R approved, 5870
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 5867-8, 5895, 6243-5, 6247 (Anderson) 5895 (Dalton) 6246-52 (de Jong) 5868-9, 5895-8 (Hansen) 6244-7, 6251-2 (Hawkins) 5864-6, 5895, 6243-4, 6247 (Krueger) 5866-7 (MacPhail) 3501, 5860-2, 5869, 5895-9, 6243-52 (Sanders) 5895, 5898-9 (Wilson, G.) 5861-4
- "Designated corporation," definition (Hawkins) 6247 (MacPhail) 6247
- "Nurse," definition (Dalton) 6248 (MacPhail) 6248
- Repeal of health sector labour relations regulation (Dalton) 6249-51 (MacPhail) 6249-51
- "Service providers committee," repeal of definition (Hawkins) 5895 (MacPhail) 5895 (Sanders) 5895
Health Canada (federal)
- AIDS study cited (Hawkins) 3645 (MacPhail) 3645
Health care
- Access to medical services (Abbott) 6201 (MacPhail) 3269, 6196, 6321 (Reid) 6197, 6321
- Accountability framework, performance measures (Abbott) 3298-9 (Hawkins) 3288-9, 3342-5 (MacPhail) 3282-3, 3288-9, 3298-9, 3342-5, 3383, 3401-3, 3649-50, 3825 (Stephens) 3383, 3649-50 (Thorpe) 3401-3
- Better Teamwork, Better Care delivery model (Abbott) 3298-9 (Hawkins) 3342-4 (MacPhail) 3282-3, 3298-9, 3342-4
- Capital projects
- Changes (Anderson) 6199-201
- Community care
- Community health services societies
- Continuing and long-term care
- Costs
- Ethical issues advisory committee (MacPhail) 3470 (Sanders) 3470
- Expenditures
- comparisons with elsewhere (Bowbrick) 2329
- Liberal Party position (Boone) 3782 (Farrell-Collins) 3784 (Sihota) 3781
- spending during NDP administration (Chong) 2500
- spending in B.C. (Giesbrecht) 2278
- Facilities
- accreditation process (Hawkins) 3344-5 (MacPhail) 3344-5, 3544 (Whittred) 3544
- amalgamation (MacPhail) 3349-50 (Whittred) 3349-50
- lease transfers (Coleman) 3394-5 (MacPhail) 3394-5
- operational funding (Abbott) 3299-300 (MacPhail) 3299-300
- private clinics (MacPhail) 3471 (Sanders) 3471
- private clinics, rules for operation (MacPhail) 3640 (Sanders) 3640
- private facilities, mandatory amalgamation with public boards or councils (Hansen) 6244-5 (MacPhail) 6244-5
- Funding
- acute care funding formula (Hawkins) 3777-8, 3817 (MacPhail) 3777-8, 3817
- adequacy (Jarvis) 2475
- basis for funding in regionalized system (MacPhail) 3356 (Sanders) 3356
- decisions, non-partisan decisions (MacPhail) 3355 (Sanders) 3355
- funding (Calendino) 2332-3 (Cashore) 2383 (MacPhail) 2153, 3858 (Petter) 2210-1, 2544 (Priddy) 2451 (Ramsey) 2369-70 (Weisbeck) 2445-6 (Wilson, J.) 2447
- funding for 1997-98 fiscal year (Petter) 2107
- funding for central Vancouver Island (MacPhail) 3955
- Liberal Party position (MacPhail) 6563
- transitional special account (Hawkins) 3292 (MacPhail) 3292
- Governance structure
- amalgamations of old boards and councils (MacPhail) 5861
- amalgamations of old boards and councils, asset and liability issues (Abbott) 6245, 6247 (Hansen) 6252 (Hawkins) 5865-6 (MacPhail) 6245, 6247, 6252 (Wilson, G.) 5863-4
- centralization of power (Hansen) 6245-6 (MacPhail) 6245-6
- roles and relationships (Abbott) 3295-9, 3324-5 (Hawkins) 3287-8, 3294, 3321-4 (MacPhail) 3287-8, 3294, 3295-9, 3321-5, 3345-6 (Whittred) 3345-6
- Government commitment to system (Hawkins) 2392 (MacPhail) 2392
- Health care societies and hospital societies
- Hospice care See Hospice care
- Medicare system
- comparison with private systems (Calendino) 5618-20 (de Jong) 5619-20
- funding (Pullinger) 2529
- protection of system (MacPhail) 3269 (Reid) 6197
- universality principle (Abbott) 6201 (MacPhail) 6201
- Multicultural health needs (Anderson) 3668-9 (MacPhail) 3668-9
- Neighbourhood health centres (MacPhail) 3461 (Symons) 3461
- NDP government actions (Dalton) 2297-8 (Nettleton) 4564-5
- New Directions program, review and modification of health care model (Abbott) 3297-8 (Hawkins) 3423-4 (MacPhail) 3298, 3423-4
- Out-of-country medical treatment (Hawkins) 3702-3 (MacPhail) 3702-3
- Palliative care See also Hospice care
- Patient care (Campbell) 3954-5 (Hawkins) 3955
- Pharmaceuticals See Drugs; Pharmaceutical industry
- Practitioners, service fees (Jarvis) 3865-6 (MacPhail) 3866 (Sanders) 2426-7
- Preventative and alternative health care (Wilson, G.) 2436-7
- Primary care system, reform (MacPhail) 3356 (Sanders) 3356
- Protection of B.C. system (Boone) 2227 (Doyle) 2237 (Hammell) 2350 (Kwan) 2094 (Lali) 2254 (Sanders) 2167-8 (Stephens) 2355 (Thorpe) 2194 (Throne speech) 2085-8 (Walsh) 2239-40
- Provincial health goals (Hawkins) 3290 (MacPhail) 3290
- Regional health boards and community health councils
- accountability (Hawkins) 3287-9, 3421-5 (MacPhail) 3287-9, 3421-4
- advisory committees (Abbott) 3296 (Hawkins) 3289, 3291 (MacPhail) 3289, 3291, 3296
- appointment process (de Jong) 5895-8 (Hansen) 6243 (MacPhail) 5860-1, 5896-8 (Sanders) 5898
- appointment restrictions, discrimination concerns (Dosanjh) 2841 (Penner) 2841
- appointments (Abbott) 3327-8 (Hawkins) 3285-6, 3424-5 (MacPhail) 3285-6, 3327-8, 3360 (Sanders) 3360
- autonomy (Abbott) 3300, 5867-8, 6244 (MacPhail) 3300, 6244
- balanced-budget requirement (MacPhail) 3402 (Thorpe) 3402
- community participation (Abbott) 3302-3, 3462 (Anderson) 6200 (Coell) 3397, 3398-9 (Hawkins) 3294, 3345 (MacPhail) 3294, 3302-3, 3345, 3397, 3399, 3401, 3462 (Thorpe) 3401
- comparison (Abbott) 3301, 3319 (MacPhail) 3301, 3319, 3387 (Penner) 3387
- compensation (Hawkins) 3291-2 (MacPhail) 3291-2
- conflict-of-interest guidelines (MacPhail) 3359 (Sanders) 3359
- employer status for pension plan purposes (Gingell) 5928 (Petter) 5928
- funding (Hawkins) 3293-4 (MacPhail) 3293-4, 3384 (Stephens) 3384
- health plans (Hawkins) 3419-20 (MacPhail) 3419-20
- legislation amendments (Dosanjh) 5675
- member selection, role of community (de Jong) 5868-9 (Hawkins) 5864-6, 6243-4 (Krueger) 5866-7 (MacPhail) 6243-4 (Wilson, G.) 5861-4
- members' backgrounds (MacPhail) 3463 (Sanders) 3463
- members' expenses, reimbursement (Abbott) 6243 (MacPhail) 5898-9, 6243 (Sanders) 5898-9
- membership (Abbott) 5895 (Coleman) 2189, 2375 (MacPhail) 5895 (Neufeld) 2184 (Sanders) 2427 (Wilson, G.) 2164-5
- representation concerns (Abbott) 3225-8 (Coleman) 3393-4 (Jarvis) 3352 (MacPhail) 3225-8, 3352, 3359-60, 3382, 3387-8, 3393-4, 3461 (Neufeld) 3382 (Penner) 3387-8 (Sanders) 3359-60
- representation, Indian members (MacPhail) 3648 (Stephens) 3648
- resource allocation decisions (Barisoff) 3512 (Krueger) 3670-1 (MacPhail) 3512, 3671
- service sector exclusions (MacPhail) 5895 (Sanders) 5895
- size and jurisdiction (Abbott) 3301-2 (MacPhail) 3301-2
- staff, management skills (MacPhail) 3384-5 (Stephens) 3384-5
- structure (Hawkins) 3290 (MacPhail) 3290
- terminations (Abbott) 3328 (MacPhail) 3328
- Regionalization
- administrative cost savings (Hawkins) 3292, 3422-3 (MacPhail) 3292, 3384, 3388, 3390, 3421-2 (Penner) 3388, 3390 (Stephens) 3384
- amalgamating of hospital districts (MacPhail) 3832 (Neufeld) 3831-2
- community and government roles (MacPhail) 3354-5 (Sanders) 3354-5
- consultation (Abbott) 3462, 5558-9 (Hawkins) 3424-5 (MacPhail) 3358-9, 3424, 3462 (Sanders) 3357-9
- effectiveness (Dalton) 6246-7 (MacPhail) 6246-7
- expropriation issue (Hansen) 6244-5 (MacPhail) 6244-5
- firing of boards (Nettleton) 2287
- funding and transfer agreements with regional authorities, audit provisions (Hawkins) 3289-90 (MacPhail) 3289-90
- funding model (MacPhail) 3544 (Whittred) 3544
- impact on community fundraising (Coleman) 3395 (MacPhail) 3395
- impact on current service delivery system (Barisoff) 3512 (Hawkins) 3873 (Jarvis) 3352 (MacPhail) 3512, 3873 (Sanders) 3353-4
- impact on volunteerism (Sanders) 3361
- impact on women (Whittred) 2667
- implementation planning (Hawkins) 3423 (MacPhail) 3423
- models used in other jurisdictions (Abbott) 3301 (MacPhail) 3301
- objectives (Hawkins) 3341-2 (MacPhail) 3342, 3347 (Whittred) 3347
- pilot projects (Wilson, G.) 5862
- public input (Krueger) 5867
- regionalization (Hurd) 2166 (Krueger) 2175
- representation by area (Abbott) 5867-8
- review (MacPhail) 3501, 5860-1 (Wilson, G.) 5863
- termination pay-outs for redundant employees (Abbott) 5859 (Hawkins) 5859
- transition resource teams (Hawkins) 3420-1 (MacPhail) 3420-1
- Reproductive care
- Respite services
- Services
- chelation therapy (Hawkins) 3704-5 (MacPhail) 3704-5
- continuity of care for discharged hospital patients (Stephens) 3577
- core programs, responsibility (Hawkins) 3294-5 (MacPhail) 3295
- culturally sensitive services (Hawkins) 2458-60 (Stevenson) 2459
- drug-related use of medical emergency services (Coell) 3866-7 (MacPhail) 3866-7
- fee increases (Whittred) 2352
- home ventilation service (Hawkins) 3707 (MacPhail) 3707
- innovative services (Hawkins) 3344 (MacPhail) 3344, 3826-7 (Thorpe) 3826-7
- intravenous therapy home program (Sanders) 3354
- patient feedback (MacPhail) 3825 (Thorpe) 3825
- regional equitability (MacPhail) 3385 (Stephens) 3385
- services for homeless people (Hawkins) 3518 (MacPhail) 3518
- specialty services, availability in non-urban areas (Reid) 6198, 6320
- user as consumer (Hawkins) 3693 (MacPhail) 3693
- Surgery
- biopsy surgery for breast cancer patients See Breast cancer under Cancer
- wait-lists for surgery See Wait-lists and waiting times below
- System
- changes (Coell) 2334-5
- concerns (Sihota) 2482-3
- effectiveness (Hawkins) 3283-5
- future (Hawkins) 3345 (MacPhail) 3345
- Liberal Party position (MacPhail) 3955
- reform and number of administration personnel (Hawkins) 3290-1, 3322 (MacPhail) 3290-1, 3322
- system during NDP administration (Barisoff) 2313 (Stephens) 2532 (Wilson, J.) 2488
- two-tiered system (Kasper) 3574-5 (MacPhail) 3575 (Neufeld) 3576 (Sihota) 3575
- Travel for treatment
- incidence (Anderson) 3823 (MacPhail) 3823
- rural and northern residents (MacPhail) 3868 (Neufeld) 3868
- User fees (Hawkins) 3705-7 (MacPhail) 3705-7
- Volunteers in health care system (MacPhail) 3350, 3360-1 (Sanders) 3360-1 (Whittred) 3350
- Wait-lists and waiting times
- Workers
Health Employers Association of British Columbia
- Physician recruitment program (MacPhail) 3830
- Role in regionalized health care system (Abbott) 3320 (MacPhail) 3320, 3324-5
Health Labour Relations Association
- Chief executive officer's severance pay-out (MacPhail) 5893
Health, Ministry of, and Ministry Responsible for Seniors
- Estimates
- debate 3281-303, 3319-28, 3341-61, 3382-403, 3419-29, 3460-80, 3504-24, 3543-52, 3566-85, 3638-50, 3663-75, 3688-708, 3773-89, 3815-36, 3862-78, 3895-902
- speakers (Abbott) 3295-303, 3319-20, 3324-8, 3461-2 (Anderson) 3516-8, 3666-9, 3823 (Barisoff) 3511-2, 3874-5 (Boone) 3782 (Chong) 3570-1, 3834-6, 3862-3 (Coell) 3396-400, 3866-7, 3874-5 (Coleman) 3393-6, 3504-5, 3513-5 (Farrell-Collins) 3778, 3783-4 (Hansen) 3787-9 (Hawkins) 3283-95, 3321-4, 3341-5, 3419-29, 3518-21, 3543, 3642-3, 3645-6, 3667-8, 3690-4, 3702-8, 3773-81, 3785-8, 3815-20, 3863-4, 3867-78, 3895, 3898-902 (Janssen) 3576, 3777-9 (Jarvis) 3352, 3865-6 (Kasper) 3574-5 (Krueger) 3571-3, 3670-5, 3688-90 (MacPhail) 3281-3, 3285-303, 3319-28, 3342-61, 3382-403, 3419-29, 3461-4, 3466-80, 3504-24, 3543-52, 3566-85, 3639-50, 3663-75, 3688-708, 3773-89, 3815-36, 3862-78, 3895-902 (Nebbeling) 3391-3 (Neufeld) 3382, 3575-6, 3828-32, 3868, 3874 (Penner) 3386-91, 3505-6, 3670, 3820-3 (Ramsey) 3689 (Reid) 3508-11, 3696-8, 3895-900 (Sanders) 3352-61, 3463-75, 3640-2, 3643-5, 3698-701, 3703-4, 3864-5 (Sihota) 3575, 3781-2 (Stephens) 3382-6, 3573-4, 3576-85, 3646-50, 3663-5 (Symons) 3460-1, 3507-8, 3550-1, 3820 (Thorpe) 3400-3, 3479, 3823-8 (van Dongen) 3512-3, 3515-6 (Weisbeck) 3695-6 (Whittred) 3345-52, 3475-9, 3521-4, 3544-50, 3551-2, 3566-70 (Wilson, G.) 3638-40 (Wilson, J.) 3832-4
- 1997-98 budget (MacPhail) 3281-2
- Annual report, 1994-95, tabled (MacPhail) 2915
- Budget (Boone) 3782
- Changes in ministers and ministry officials (Sanders) 2167 (van Dongen) 2202
- Employees, transfer to regionalized health services authorities (Abbott) 3324 (Hawkins) 3321 (MacPhail) 3321, 3324
- Estimates debate
- opposition's role in process (MacPhail) 3782 (Sihota) 3781-2
- staff time required to answer questions (Hawkins) 3778 (Janssen) 3777-8 (MacPhail) 3778
- Funding needs (Penner) 2197
- Minister, role in amendments to Public Sector Employers Act (Gingell) 5695
- Minister's certificate as evidence of tobacco-related health care costs (de Jong) 6311-2 (Hawkins) 6310 (MacPhail) 6310-2
- Ministers of Health, number of ministers in past six years (Hawkins) 3283
- Multiculturalism committee (Anderson) 3668 (MacPhail) 3668
- Office for seniors
- information services (Whittred) 3552
- staff commended (Whittred) 3544
- Program responsibilities (Coell) 3398-9 (MacPhail) 3398-9
- Role
- Special warrant debate 2217-8
- Staff commended (MacPhail) 3902
- Transfer of programs and services to Children and Families ministry See Children and Families, Ministry for
Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Lives program
Healthy Communities program
- Role in regionalized health care system (Anderson) 3666-8 (Hawkins) 3667-8 (MacPhail) 3666-8
Healthy Kids program
Healthy Saanich 2000 program
Healthy Schools program
Heddle, Kathleen
- Commended for athletic achievements (Throne speech) 2085
Hedley Mascot mine
Heffley Creek, B.C.
- Water wells, road-salt contamination (Boone) 5319 (Krueger) 5319
Helms-Burton act (United States)
Hepatitis C
- Database of blood transfusion recipients (Hawkins) 3691-2 (MacPhail) 3691-2
- Incidence (Conroy) 3054 (MacPhail) 3582 (Stephens) 3582
- Information mailout (MacPhail) 3827-8 (Thorpe) 3827-8
- Services for children (MacPhail) 3828 (Thorpe) 3828
Herald (Merritt)
- Article quoted on investing in B.C. (Penner) 2514
Heritage
- See also Heritage branch under Small Business, Tourism and Culture, Ministry of; British Columbia Heritage Trust; Culture; Heritage Society of British Columbia
- Development of local heritage commissions (Chong) 4391
- Federal funding, B.C. share (Pullinger) 4405 (Stephens) 4405
- Heritage activities in B.C. (Pullinger) 4415
- Heritage trails, designation target (Chong) 4415
- Preservation of B.C. heritage (Pullinger) 4102
- Special events in B.C., government role (Chong) 4391-2 (Pullinger) 4391-2
Heritage Park Centre, Mission, B.C.
- Completion (Streifel) 2357
Heritage Rivers Board
- Government consultation re rivers to have legislative protection (McGregor) 6169-70
Heritage Society of British Columbia
- Development of local heritage commissions (Chong) 4391 (Pullinger) 4391
Heritage Trust
- See British Columbia Heritage Trust
Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway)
- 200th Street overpass (Barisoff) 5209 (Boone) 5209, 5274-5 (Stephens) 5274-5
- 216th Street overpass (Boone) 5275 (Stephens) 5275
- Bradner Road sani-dump station, hours of operation (Boone) 5429-32 (de Jong) 5429-31 (Hawkins) 5431-2
- Cape Horn interchange at Highway 7, improvements (Boone) 5207
- Closing of highway in Fraser Valley area during winter weather conditions
- Evans Road flyover proposal (Boone) 5214 (Penner) 5214
- Grandview to Cape Horn interchange
- six-laning project, status and cost (Barisoff) 5208 (Boone) 5208
- widening (Boone) 5377 (Clark, G.) 5377
- Malahat-Okotoks Road intersection, bypass (Boone) 5368 (Symons) 5368
- Rest area closings (van Dongen) 4140-1
Highway 1A (Fraser Highway)
- 216th Street overpass (Boone) 5275 (Stephens) 5275
Highway 2
- Passing lanes at Pouce Coupe weigh scale area (Boone) 5471 (Neufeld) 5471
Highway 3
Highway 5
- Coquihalla Highway
- Okanagan connector bypass (Barisoff) 5238 (Boone) 5238
- outstanding capital debt (Boone) 5237-8 (Krueger) 5237
- toll booth (Boone) 5237 (Krueger) 5237
- Kamloops-Clearwater section, passing lanes (Boone) 5236 (Krueger) 5236
- Paving project north of Little Fort, case cited (Boone) 5236-7 (Krueger) 5236-7
Highway 6
- Washout area west of Lumby (Boone) 5467 (Sanders) 5466
Highway 7A (Barnet Highway)
Highway 11
- Interchange project near Mission (Boone) 5311 (Dalton) 5311
- Upgrading (de Jong) 5010 (MacPhail) 5010-1
- "Welcome to B.C." sign on Sumas Way, maintenance (Boone) 5426-7 (van Dongen) 5426-7
Highway 19 (Island Highway)
- Impact on student-pedestrian safety in Lantzville area (Ramsey) 6147, 6149 (Reitsma) 6147-9
- Island Highway construction project
- advertising costs (Boone) 5281 (Neufeld) 5281
- benefits to Island communities (Cashore) 3097 (Reitsma) 3097
- blasting, complaints from local homeowners (Boone) 5272-3 (Chong) 5271-3
- cost (Barisoff) 5201-2, 5238-41 (Boone) 5203, 5238-41
- economic benefits for future (Kasper) 2339
- environmental assessments (Barisoff) 5285 (Boone) 5285
- fair-wage policy and local hiring (Barisoff) 5203 (Boone) 5203
- fair-wage policy and workers' pension contribution (McKinnon) 2337
- fair-wage policy, extension to other projects (Cashore) 3101 (Dalton) 3101
- fair-wage policy, impact (Barisoff) 5239-40 (Boone) 5239-40
- fair-wage policy, impact on project costs (Barisoff) 4428 (Boone) 4428
- Goldstream Park section (Symons) 5369
- impact on businesses (Barisoff) 5240-1 (Boone) 5240-1
- labour agreement (Cashore) 3100 (Dalton) 3048, 3099-100 (Miller) 4087-9 (Neufeld) 4088-9 (Orcherton) 2557
- local hiring (Miller) 5498 (Neufeld) 5498-9
- project (Barisoff) 5238-41 (Boone) 5238-40
- safety concerns (Barisoff) 5238-9 (Boone) 5238-9
- stream damage (Barisoff) 5285, 5309 (Boone) 5285, 5309
- work still to be completed (Barisoff) 5238-40 (Boone) 5238-40
- workers' pensions See Pensions
- Reflectors used on highway, safety concern (Boone) 5369 (Symons) 5369
Highway 20
- Fraser River crossing, shoulder repairs (Barisoff) 5391 (Boone) 5391
Highway 24
- Little Fort bypass (Boone) 5236 (Krueger) 5236
Highway 37
- Glacier Creek-Tatogga Lake section, seal-coating (Boone) 5359 (Neufeld) 5359
- Kitwanga-Yukon border section, seal-coat removal (Barisoff) 5213 (Boone) 5213
Highway 91
- 152nd Street overpass (Barisoff) 5208 (Boone) 5208
- Nordel interchange, construction (Barisoff) 5208 (Boone) 5208
- Traffic congestion at north end of Alex Fraser Bridge, alleviation (Boone) 5208
Highway 97
- Alaska Highway
- road to private residence at mile 206, use (Boone) 5361-2 (Neufeld) 5361-2
- role in tourism industry (Neufeld) 3171
- tourism signage (Boone) 5357-9 (Neufeld) 5357-9
- upgrade, petition tabled (Neufeld) 3460
- Construction project, costs (Barisoff) 4428 (Boone) 4428 (Campbell) 4427-8
- Exits to restaurant and gas facility near Lac La Hache (Boone) 5429 (Chong) 5429
- Glenrosa intersection project (Boone) 5284 (Hawkins) 5284
- Land acquisition from Westbank Indian band for road system improvements (Boone) 5325 (Hawkins) 5325
- McIntyre Bluff near Vaseux Lake, safety issues (Barisoff) 5209 (Boone) 5209
- Summerland-Peachland section, traffic accidents (Boone) 5376 (Thorpe) 5375-6
Highway 99
- 152nd Street overpass (Barisoff) 5208-9
- Approach to George Massey Tunnel, road-banking safety issue (Boone) 5369 (Symons) 5369
- On-ramp from Westminster Highway, road-banking safety issue (Boone) 5369 (Symons) 5369
- Richmond section, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes (Boone) 5392 (Symons) 5392
- Sea to Sky Highway
- access to proposed Squamish shopping centre (Boone) 5311 (Dalton) 5311
- hospital services for corridor communities (MacPhail) 3391-3 (Nebbeling) 3391-3
- Traffic congestion at north end of Alex Fraser Bridge (Barisoff) 5208
Highway 101
- Construction projects (Boone) 5368 (Symons) 5368
- Rat Portage Hill construction project (Boone) 5368, 5396 (Symons) 5368 (Wilson, G.) 5396
Highway Act
- Amendments (Dosanjh) 6241
Highway Constructors Ltd.
- Employee pension contributions (Barisoff) 5285-6 (Boone) 5285-6
- Employees, pension benefits (Cashore) 3097 (Reitsma) 3096-7
- Expansion to mainland (Barisoff) 5286 (Boone) 5286
- Island Highway construction project See Highway 19
Highways and roads
- See also Transportation; particular areas, e.g., Okanagan area
- Arterial highways
- definition of term (Boone) 6348
- Highways ministry responsibility (Boone) 6352 (Neufeld) 6352
- Capital rehabilitation program for newly incorporated municipalities (Abbott) 5321 (Boone) 5321
- Construction projects
- Consultation between provincial government and municipalities re highways (Abbott) 6351 (Barisoff) 6348 (Boone) 6348-9, 6351 (Neufeld) 6349
- Controlled-access highway, definition of term (Barisoff) 5312 (Boone) 5312
- Declassification of highways and roads
- Ferries as extension of highway system See British Columbia Ferry Corporation
- Forest roads See Forest industry
- Funding grants to municipalities (Abbott) 6351-2 (Boone) 6348, 6350, 6352 (Dosanjh) 6241 (Krueger) 6350
- Funding levels (Barisoff) 5314-5 (Boone) 5314-5, 5318, 5365-6, 5435 (Hawkins) 5434-5 (Krueger) 5318 (Symons) 5365-6
- Gravel, size of aggregate used (Neufeld) 4650 (Petter) 4650
- High-occupancy-vehicle lanes
- Highway maintenance
- Highway operations, costs (Boone) 5366 (Symons) 5366
- Highways ministry approval of official community plans, funding for roads (Boone) 6351 (Nebbeling) 6350-1
- Improvements, funding (Jarvis) 4592
- Landscaping, funding (Boone) 5363 (Neufeld) 5363-4
- Major highway performance sustaining program (Barisoff) 5210 (Boone) 5210
- Moving 16-wides on roads (Barisoff) 5474 (Boone) 5474 (Neufeld) 2260, 5475
- Municipal grant deduction for highways maintenance See Grants from provincial government, reduction under Municipalities
- National highways program for Canada (Boone) 2228
- Northern B.C. roads See Northern B.C. under British Columbia
- Projects
- completed projects (Barisoff) 5211, 5315 (Boone) 5211, 5315
- prioritization of projects (Barisoff) 5210-1 (Boone) 5210-1
- realignment and passing-lane projects (Barisoff) 5211
- Property for highway use, acquisition in Richmond area (Barisoff) 5313 (Boone) 5313
- Provincial road data management system (McGregor) 5709 (Neufeld) 5709
- Provincial roads, condition (Barisoff) 5314-6 (Boone) 5314-6
- Rest stops, Deadmans Lake facility (Barisoff) 5609 (McGregor) 5609
- Road information service, 1-900 number (Barisoff) 5324-5 (Boone) 5324-5
- Road safety initiatives See Road safety program under Insurance Corporation of British Columbia; Traffic safety under Automobiles
- Roads on Indian lands, maintenance of right-of-way (Cashore) 3496-7 (Weisgerber) 3496-7
- Sani-dump stations, operations (Boone) 5426, 5429-32 (de Jong) 5429-31 (Hawkins) 5431-2 (van Dongen) 5426-7
- Secondary highways
- Sierra-Yoyo-Desan road (Boone) 5282 (Neufeld) 5282
- Sierra-Yoyo-Desan road, maintenance and repairs (Miller) 4151 (Neufeld) 4151
- Speed limits, determination based on 85 percentile measure (Dosanjh) 2831-2 (Neufeld) 2832 (Plant) 2831
- Tolls See Tolls
- Tourism signage See Signs on highways for services and iattractions under Signs and signage
- Transporting of dangerous goods, regulation (Barisoff) 6068 (Boone) 6068
- Upper Halfway road, safety concerns (Neufeld) 5329
- Weight of vehicles and damage to roads (Barisoff) 5435-6 (Boone) 5316, 5435-6
Hikel, Ron
- Report cited on income assistance caseload projections (Coell) 4496
Hildebrant, Al
- Quoted re Technology B.C. funding (Miller) 2560
Hill, Annwyn
- Work on Nanoose Conversion Campaign committee (Reitsma) 5805
Hill, Bruce
- Quoted re loss of expertise in fisheries and wildlife branches (van Dongen) 2307
HMCS Saskatchewan
- Sinking as artificial reef (Reitsma) 2549
Hog industry
- Strategic plan for industry (Evans) 3945 (van Dongen) 3945
- Sunset clauses for hog scheme (Evans) 3952, 3982 (van Dongen) 3952, 3982
Hogg, Gordon (Surrey-White Rock)
- Election and introduction to House 6590
Hollins, Leah
- Comments on ambulance service (Abbott) 3859 (MacPhail) 3859
Home care
- Funding (MacPhail) 3546
- Housekeeping services, eligibility criteria (MacPhail) 3551 (Symons) 3550-1
- Nursing services (MacPhail) 3824 (Thorpe) 3824
- Personal assistant guidelines (MacPhail) 3827 (Thorpe) 3827
- Service providers, standards (MacPhail) 3545 (Whittred) 3544-5
- Support services
- Support workers
Homeowner grant
- Strata developments and undivided interest issue (Abbott) 3921-2 (Farnworth) 3922
Homes B.C. program
- New Options for Home Ownership projects (Coleman) 3755 (Farnworth) 3755
- Program (Coleman) 3719-20, 3754 (Farnworth) 3720, 3754, 3759-60
- Project management by non-profit societies (Coleman) 3766 (Farnworth) 3766
Homosexuality
Hopkins, Peter
- Role as Workers Compensation Board ombudsman (Cashore) 3224 (Reid) 3224
Horse-racing industry
- Gambling expansion, impact on industry (Krueger) 2264, 4349 (Miller) 4349
- Slot machines at racetracks See Gambling
Horticulture
- Demonstration site in Abbotsford, closing (Evans) 3985 (van Dongen) 3985
- South Okanagan district horticulturalist position (Barisoff) 3950-1 (Evans) 3950-1
Hospice care
- See also Health care
- Benefits (Gingell) 4479
- Hospice care in B.C. (Gingell) 4421-3 (Stevenson) 4422-3
- Richmond hospice, construction (Reid) 2511
Hospital Act
Hospital District Act
- Amendments (Dosanjh) 5675
Hospital Employees Union
- "Guardian" newsletter quoted on collective agreement (Hurd) 2774
- Role in NDP campaign (Hurd) 2774
Hospitality industry
- See Hotels and travel accommodation; Tourism industry
Hospitals
- Acute-care beds, availability (Hawkins) 3872-3 (MacPhail) 3824-5, 3872-3 (Stephens) 3577 (Thorpe) 3824-5
- Amalgamations (van Dongen) 2202
- Boards
- amalgamation with community health councils and regional health boards (Hawkins) 3287, 3295 (MacPhail) 3287, 3295
- replacement (Coell) 2334
- severance packages for board members (Krueger) 2174-5 (Wilson, G.) 2165
- Capital funding
- conflicts between investing bodies (Abbott) 5677-8
- cost-sharing (Coell) 5679
- Community hospitals, impact of health care regionalization (Coell) 2176
- Drugs provided to patients while in hospital (Barisoff) 3875 (MacPhail) 3875
- Emergency rooms
- use by persons with mental illnesses (MacPhail) 3468 (Sanders) 3468
- use for alcohol- and drug-related cases (Coell) 3866-7 (MacPhail) 3520, 3866-7
- utilization issues (MacPhail) 3824-5 (Thorpe) 3824-5
- Funding
- Gender segregation policies (MacPhail) 3704 (Sanders) 3703-4
- Hospital foundations, future (MacPhail) 3383 (Stephens) 3383
- Hospital societies See Health care societies and hospital societies under Health care
- Quick response teams (Sanders) 3354
- Regional hospital districts See Regional hospital districts
- Revenues, disposition (MacPhail) 3383 (Stephens) 3383
- Services
- culturally sensitive services (MacPhail) 3648, 3668-9 (Stephens) 3648
- maternity and perinatal services (MacPhail) 3663-4 (Stephens) 3663-4
- Severance for displaced executive personnel (Hawkins) 3290 (Krueger) 3670 (MacPhail) 3290, 3670
- Staff exposure to HIV/AIDS (MacPhail) 3644 (Sanders) 3644
- Tour of B.C. hospitals, member's personal experiences (Hawkins) 3286-7
Hotel Room Tax Act
- Amendment (Petter) 2563
- Regional levy for revenue generation (Pullinger) 3249
Hotels and travel accommodation
- See also Tourism industry
- Accommodations program (Pullinger) 4255-8 (Reitsma) 4255-8
- Hotel room tax
- collection by hotel operators (Pullinger) 3935 (Reitsma) 3935
- introduction of tax (Pullinger) 3180
- refund overpayments, reassessments (Chong) 2927 (Gingell) 2926 (Neufeld) 2927 (Petter) 2926-8
- refunds, responsibility for government errors (Symons) 2599
- revenue, use to promote tourism (Pullinger) 3906
- revenue, use to recover capital costs (Miller) 4060
- Room rates (Pullinger) 3935 (Wilson, G.) 3935
Housing
- Affordable housing, availability (Anderson) 3270-1 (Bowbrick) 3269-71
- Availability in lower mainland and capital regional district (Farnworth) 3763 (Whittred) 3763
- Community housing initiative (Farnworth) 3794-5
- Cooperatives
- eligibility of income assistance recipients (Streifel) 4613
- equity cooperatives (Coleman) 3755-7 (Farnworth) 3755-7
- maintenance and repairs (Anderson) 3800 (Farnworth) 3800
- rental cooperatives (Coleman) 3755 (Farnworth) 3755
- Coordination of government and private activity (Coleman) 3713, 3768, 3795-6 (Farnworth) 3768, 3795-6
- Costs (Coleman) 3837 (Farnworth) 3837
- Emergency housing and shelters
- availability (Coell) 4614 (Streifel) 4614
- housing for homeless and at-risk people (Coleman) 3726 (Farnworth) 3726 (Hawkins) 3518 (MacPhail) 3518-9
- program review (Anderson) 4612 (Streifel) 4612
- situation in downtown Vancouver See Vancouver, B.C.
- transition housing for women leaving violent relationships, standards and service delivery (Hammell) 2655, 2658-64, 2782-3, 2804-5, 4445-9, 4452-4 (Reid) 2663-4 (Stephens) 2658-62, 2804-5, 4445-9, 4452-3, 4454 (Thorpe) 2782-3
- Victoria safe house (Miller) 4206
- Funding from federal government (Kwan) 6125-6
- Government responsibilities, consolidation (Coleman) 2986
- Guides for housing societies (Coleman) 3804
- Housing registries (Coleman) 3713-4, 3794-5 (Farnworth) 3713-4, 3764, 3795 (Whittred) 3764
- Housing suitable for children (Anderson) 3799-801 (Farnworth) 3799-801
- Land costs (Coleman) 3803 (Farnworth) 3803-4
- Legislation See Residential Tenancy Act
- Manufactured homes See Manufactured homes
- Non-profit housing societies
- government subsidies and tenant selection (Coleman) 3717 (Farnworth) 3717-8
- monitoring (Coleman) 3718, 3720 (Farnworth) 3718-9
- operating agreements (Coleman) 3718 (Farnworth) 3718
- Policy, ministerial responsibility (Coleman) 4716-8 (Petter) 4716-7
- Protection of housing stock, use of covenants (Coleman) 6122-3 (Farnworth) 6128
- Rental housing
- availability of affordable stock (Coleman) 3804
- day care spaces in rental buildings (Coleman) 3801
- illegal suites (Coleman) 2986 (Dosanjh) 2986
- landlord's responsibility to store former tenant's possessions (Coleman) 2984-5 (Dosanjh) 2984-5
- landlord-tenant disputes, arbitration (Coleman) 2982-4 (Dosanjh) 2954, 2982-4 (Plant) 2954
- low-rent units (Whittred) 3763
- records, maintenance requirement (Dosanjh) 2986 (Weisgerber) 2985-6
- rent levels and vacancy rates (Dosanjh) 2953 (Reitsma) 2953
- residential tenancies, government role See Residential tenancy branch under Attorney General, Ministry of
- secondary suites (Coleman) 3802-3 (Farnworth) 3761, 3802-3 (Whittred) 3761-2
- security deposits for income assistance recipients (Streifel) 4616-7, 4619-20 (Thorpe) 4616-7 (van Dongen) 4619-20
- source of income prohibited as grounds for refusing tenant (Dosanjh) 2835 (Plant) 2835
- Rooming hotels, property management standards (Coleman) 6123
- Self-contained units (Coleman) 3798 (Farnworth) 3798
- Seniors housing See Seniors; Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program
- Single-room occupancies See also particular cities
- conversion process and registration of restrictive covenant on title (Coleman) 6122, 6237-8 (Farnworth) 6237-8
- definition of term (Coleman) 6123
- design (Coleman) 6122
- need for legislation (Coleman) 6121 (Farnworth) 6129
- NDP government policies (Coleman) 6123-4
- units (Coleman) 3797-8 (Farnworth) 3797-8
- Site selection (Anderson) 3799-800 (Farnworth) 3799-800
- Social housing
- availability (Coleman) 3715-6, 3718 (Farnworth) 3716
- bursary program for residents (Coleman) 3721-2 (Farnworth) 3721-2
- Canada-Saskatchewan agreement (Coleman) 3806
- duplication of service (Coleman) 3716 (Farnworth) 3716
- funding (Coell) 4614 (Hammell) 4462 (Stephens) 4461-2 (Streifel) 4611, 4615
- government role (Farnworth) 6120
- group homes (Coleman) 3723-5, 3751-4 (Farnworth) 3723-5, 3751-4
- income verification (Coleman) 3767 (Farnworth) 3767
- interministerial committee on special-needs housing (Coell) 4612 (Streifel) 4611-2
- mentally ill clients (Coell) 3399 (Coleman) 3750-1 (Farnworth) 3750-1
- ministerial responsibility (Streifel) 4611
- modernization and improvement, funding and tenants' role (Coleman) 3713-4 (Farnworth) 3714
- non-profit projects (Coleman) 3802
- proposal calls (Coleman) 3722-3 (Farnworth) 3722-3
- public-private partnerships (Coell) 4614 (Streifel) 4615
- purpose (Coleman) 3710
- rent supplements (Coleman) 3718 (Farnworth) 3718
- rents based on core need income threshold (Coleman) 2949-50 (Dosanjh) 2949-50
- service delivery cost and rent supplement (Coleman) 3716-7 (Farnworth) 3717
- situation in downtown Vancouver See Vancouver, B.C.
- sponsoring society process and ministries' involvement (Coleman) 3719-20 (Farnworth) 3719-20
- tenant association grants (Coleman) 3721 (Farnworth) 3721
- tenants' handbook (Coleman) 3721 (Farnworth) 3721
- urban needs (Coleman) 2376, 2633 (Kwan) 2632-4
- wheelchair-accessible stock (Coleman) 3714 (Farnworth) 3714
- Strategic plan
- plan (Coleman) 3764-5 (Farnworth) 3765
- response to clients, flexibility and timeliness (Coleman) 3767-8 (Farnworth) 3767
- Supported housing for persons with mental illnesses (Coleman) 3514 (MacPhail) 3399, 3468, 3505, 3508, 3571 (Reid) 3510 (Stephens) 3571 (Symons) 3507-8
- Taxation during NDP administration (Coleman) 3837
Houston, B.C.
- Courthouse closing (Dosanjh) 2616-7 (Plant) 2616-7
- Economy of area, role in provincial economy (Nettleton) 2696-7
- Emergencies and police presence (Dosanjh) 3381 (Plant) 3380-1
- KPMG study on provincial government funding (Nettleton) 2696-7
Huckleberry copper mine
- See Canamin Resources Ltd.
Hughes Aircraft of Canada Ltd.
- Work at Richmond facility (Miller) 4232
Hughes, Edward N. (Ted)
- Commended for work as conflict-of-interest commissioner (Farrell-Collins) 2111 (MacPhail) 2111
- Letter to press gallery quoted (Penner) 4779-80 (Thorpe) 4738 (van Dongen) 4778
- Meeting re conflict-of-interest legislation (Gingell) 4757
- Position while conflict-of-interest commissioner on use of constituency offices for partisan political activities (Campbell) 3729-30 (Miller) 3729-30 (Pullinger) 3628-9 (Thorpe) 3628, 3730
- Quoted on ethical standards for MLAs (Masi) 4777 (Penner) 4780-1 (Thorpe) 4738 (van Dongen) 4778
- Recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct (Anderson) 4782-4 (Bowbrick) 4748-50 (Coell) 4784 (Coleman) 4754-5 (Farrell-Collins) 4741-4 (Masi) 4777 (Nebbeling) 4752 (Penner) 4779-81 (Reitsma) 4773-4 (Symons) 4739-40 (Thorpe) 4738-9 (Weisbeck) 4766 (Weisgerber) 4745-8
- Ruling on right of Kevin Krueger to ask questions on Insurance Corporation of B.C. during estimates (Krueger) 4647 (Petter) 4647
Human Resources, Ministry of
- Estimates
- debate 4482-501, 4513-21, 4571-86, 4608-25, 4651-69, 4689-96, Report 5998-9
- speakers (Anderson) 4486-8, 4492-3, 4495, 4515-7, 4519-21, 4576-80, 4582, 4584-6, 4611-3, 4615, 4655-9, 4669, 4690-2, 4695 (Coell) 4484-6, 4489-93, 4496-500, 4513-5, 4517-9, 4571-6, 4578-84, 4608-11, 4614-5, 4619-20, 4623-5, 4651-5, 4659-66, 4689-90, 4692-5, 5998 (Gingell) 4622-3 (Krueger) 4575-6 (McKinnon) 4488-9, 4617-9 (Neufeld) 4488, 4493-5 (Plant) 4666-8 (Streifel) 4482-501, 4513-21, 4571-86, 4609-25, 4651-69, 4689-96, 5998-9 (Thorpe) 4615-7, 4654 (van Dongen) 4619-22
- Assistance for people ineligible for existing social welfare programs (Anderson) 4520 (Streifel) 4520
- Budget (Coell) 4492 (Streifel) 4492
- Client confidentiality and release of information (Anderson) 4655-6 (McKinnon) 4489 (Streifel) 4489, 4656
- Establishment of new ministry
- Health services branch
- role in assessing eligibility for disability benefits (Coell) 4654-5 (Streifel) 4654-5
- staffing and caseloads (Coell) 4609 (Streifel) 4609
- Income support programs, 1996-97 overexpenditures (Coell) 2218-9 (Streifel) 2218-9
- Kelowna building, use (Coleman) 5089 (Miller) 5089
- Minister's office, staffing and workload (Coell) 4695 (Streifel) 4695
- Multiculturalism plan (Anderson) 4691 (Streifel) 4691
- Performance measurement unit, mandate and operations (Anderson) 4517 (Streifel) 4517
- Prevention, compliance and enforcement division
- Regional offices
- breakdown of client types and numbers (Anderson) 4492 (Streifel) 4492
- closing of South Delta office (Gingell) 2299, 4622-3 (Streifel) 4623
- closing of Tsawwassen office (Gingell) 2144-5
- closing of Tsawwassen office, petition tabled (Gingell) 2154
- closings (Coell) 4581 (Streifel) 4581
- equipment and facilities (Streifel) 4621 (van Dongen) 4621
- number (Coell) 2219 (Streifel) 2219
- sharing of office space with other ministries (Coell) 4490 (Streifel) 4490
- staff attitude toward income assistance recipients (Anderson) 4515 (Coell) 4515, 4517-8 (McKinnon) 4488-9 (Streifel) 4515, 4518
- work of staff commended (Streifel) 5998
- work of staff in Penticton office commended (Streifel) 4616 (Thorpe) 4615-6
- Responsibilities shared with Children and Families ministry (Coell) 4519, 4575, 4584, 4692-3 (Streifel) 4519, 4575, 4584, 4692-3
- Responsibilities shared with Education, Skills and Training ministry (Streifel) 4483-4, 4575
- Responsibilities shared with other ministries, coordination of service delivery (Streifel) 4489
- Special warrant debate 2218-9
- Transfer of programs and services from Social Services ministry (Coell) 4484-5 (Streifel) 4484-5
- Welfare to work program See name of program
Human rights
- Arrest warrants as grounds for discrimination (Anderson) 2839 (Dosanjh) 2839
- Government-mandated activities See British Columbia Human Rights Commission; British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
Human Rights Code
- Provisions on tribunal access (Dosanjh) 2837 (Plant) 2836-7
Human Rights Council
- Complaints backlog (Plant) 5850
Hume, Stephen
- Newspaper article quoted on generic drug use (Reid) 2323
Hunt, Ray
- Severance package (de Jong) 5856
Hunting
- Game hunting on private land (McGregor) 5767 (Neufeld) 5766-7
- Hunting by Indians See Indians
- Licence application delays (Clark, C.) 5507-8 (McGregor) 5508
- Licence fees, revenue (Clark, C.) 5762 (McGregor) 5762
- Limited-entry hunting (McGregor) 5632-4 (Weisgerber) 5631-4
- Moose hunting, horn configuration requirement and inadvertent kills (McGregor) 5634 (Weisgerber) 5634
- Offences committed by out-of-province hunters (McGregor) 5770 (Wilson, J.) 5770
Hurd, Wilf (Surrey-White Rock)
- An Act to Amend the Highways and Vehicles Statutes Amendment Act (Saskatchewan), copy tabled 2850
- B.C. Automobile Association, position on drunk driving 2846-7
- B.C. Safety Council, "Traffic Safety at the Crossroads" report, copy tabled 2850
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2568-70
- Commended for work as MLA (Campbell) 2852 (Clark, G.) 2851 (Weisgerber) 2852
- Drugs
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2774-5
- reference-based pricing 2774
- Eliesen, Marc, compensation 2587-8
- Forest industry, issues 2398-9
- Gambling, impact on families 2713
- Government
- provincial-municipal relations 2570
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2166-7
- Health care regionalization 2166
- Hospital Employees Union, role in NDP campaign 2774
- Impaired driving, penalties and deterrents 2845-7
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2398-9
- Job protection commissioner, role 2398-9
- Kerley, Douglas, commended for work as job protection commissioner 2398-9
- Legislature, number of sitting days since 1995 2166
- Liberal Party, campaign contributions from pharmaceutical industry 2774
- MLAs, public service 2851
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2568-9
- Pharmacare program, generic-drug substitution 2775
- Quoted re Forest Practices Code (Krueger) 6159-60
- Resignation of seat in B.C. Legislature 2851
- Resource industries, role in B.C. economy 2398-9
- Roffel, Mark, drunk driver fatality case 2845, 2847
- Saskatchewan, impaired driving legislation 2845-7
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2166-7
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